Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton, whose friendship reportedly ended over their sharp differences over Donald Trump’s presidency, appeared to enjoy a cordial conversation Wednesday as they sat next to each other at the funeral for former President George H.W. Bush, the Daily Mail reported.

It would be the first time the women have been seen together in public since their reported falling-out after the contentious 2016 election, when their parents — reality TV star Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — battled for the presidency.

The first daughters, who were once said to be close, also sat alongside Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, in the National Catherdral. The three, in turn, were a few rows behind their parents, President Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who also is the former first lady.

The Daily Mail said Hillary Clinton sat “stone-faced” and didn’t greet Trump and first lady Melania Trump as they entered the cathedral and took their seats next to former President Barack Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama. The Associated Press added that small talk amongst the former presidents and their wives ceased when Donald and Melania Trump entered, underlying everyone’s uneasy relationship with the current White House occupant.

The reunion of the two first daughters, taking place under the somber circumstances of Bush’s funeral, comes six months after Chelsea Clinton, 38, slammed Ivanka Trump, 37, in an interview for choosing to stand by her father and his controversial policies, insisting that Ivanka, a White House senior adviser, should be “held responsible” for her choices.

In an interview with The Guardian, Chelsea Clinton said she had no sympathy for Ivanka Trump facing criticism for her father’s rhetoric or actions, including his administration’s policy to deter immigration by separating children from their parents at the Mexican border.

“She’s an adult,” said Chelsea Clinton, a children’s book author who are serves on the board of her family’s Clinton Foundation. “She can make the choices for herself. I mean, she’s (37). We are responsible for our choices.”

Ivanka Trump, left, greets Chelsea Clinton on the red carpet at the 2014 Glamour Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Chelsea Clinton also shared others’ distaste and concerns about nepotism in the Trump White House, with the president’s decision to have his daughter and her husband work for him as senior advisers. Chelsea Clinton said that had her mother been elected, she never would have gone to work for her in the White House.

“I think the president should be able to hire whoever he or she thinks are best qualified,” Chelsea Clinton said. “I do not believe that many of the people that he has hired have been qualified to do the jobs. Not only do I want an administration that isn’t venal, corrupt and focused on making life harder for millions of Americans, I also want a competent administration. So for me, the larger question is the collision of cruelty and incompetence and corruption that we see across the administration.”

In response to a question from The Guardian, about whether Ivanka Trump was “complicit” for going along with her “father’s grotesque bidding,” Chelsea Clinton said she didn’t always agree with her own parents on political issues.

“In 2008 I was really proud to support my (mom) — but I disagreed with her fundamentally on a few things, particularly her then-opposition to equal marriage rights for LGBTQ Americans,” Chelsea Clinton said. “I never defended that position, because it wasn’t what I believed was the right thing to do.”

Chelsea Clinton, who has used her social media presence to criticize Trump administration policies, earlier rebuked Ivanka Trump for sitting in for her father during a meeting of world leaders at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in 2017.

Ivanka Trump’s move was considered a serious breach of diplomatic protocol. In a tweet at Donald Trump, Chelsea Clinton said her parents would never have considered asking her to sit in such a meeting.

Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. https://t.co/4ODjWZUp0c

Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump once had good reasons to become good friends. Both were busy working mothers in Manhattan who also are wealthy and have famous parents. The two sometimes were spotted together on the red carpet at high society events, such as Glamour’s 2014 Woman of the Year awards at Carnegie Hall.

Chelsea Clinton also praised Ivanka Trump, who then worked for her father’s real estate company and ran her own fashion brand, in a 2015 interview in Vogue.

“There’s nothing skin-deep about Ivanka,” Chelsea Clinton said. “She’s always aware of everyone around her and ensuring that everyone is enjoying the moment. It’s an awareness that in some ways reminds me of my dad, and his ability to increase the joy of the room.”

The admiration was mutual, with Ivanka Trump once tweeting an inspirational quote from Chelsea Clinton and remarking “well said,” according to The Daily Mail.

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The friendship somehow survived the 2016 election, even when Trump and his supporters were calling for Hillary Clinton to be locked up over her email controversy, The Guardian and other reports have said.

But the friendship didn’t survive Trump’s presidency, according to The Guardian. Chelsea Clinton told The Guardian she and Ivanka Trump hadn’t spoken in “a long time.”

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.